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	World Almanac for Kids
		During the next quarter of a century numerous other leagues were organized throughout the U.S. Among the first of these were the International League and the Northwestern League, both composed of teams representing smaller cities than the clubs in the National League and known for that reason as minor leagues.
		Baseball is played by amateurs of all ages, including numerous sandlot clubs and athletic associations, virtually every high school and college in the U.S., and scores of junior leagues.
		Much controversy surrounded baseball’s reserve clause, which bound a player to one team until the player retired or was traded; if a player’s contract expired, and no new agreement was reached, the clause allowed the team to renew the contract annually.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/sports/baseball.html (2274 words)

	major league baseball all star directory
		Major League Baseball Properties, MLB Advanced Media and Century 21 Real Estate LLC today announced the 12 finalists for the Hank Aaron Award presented by CENTURY 21.
		Major League Baseball Statistics for each player, team, and league in baseball history.
		MARIETTA, GA - The Southern League of Professional Baseball Clubs is proud to announce the winners of the major on-field awards for the 2005 season as voted upon by the league's field managers, radio broadcasters and print media.
	www.baseball-directory.ws /majorleaguebaseballallstar (2274 words)

	Major League Baseball : History : Explore MLB.com's History Coverage
		Since baseball's beginnings in the mid-19th century, the governance of the game has evolved to a central figure with considerable powers called the Commissioner.
		Sort every draft pick by year and team or draft type, find the number one overall picks by year, and see what players were drafted and then sent straight to the majors.
		Saying goodbye to baseball legends, including broadcasters like Jack Buck and Bob Murphy, and paying respect to the people who make the game a great spectacle.
	mlb.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/history/index.jsp (597 words)

	APSE Associated Press Sports Editors
		Baseball players build huge homes, take care of their families and inspire future generations of ballplayers with the tantalizing prospect they, too, will share the sweet fruits of big-league success.
		Dominicans have played the game for more than a century and broke into the major leagues in 1958.
		Baseball America, a publication specializing in the coverage of minor-league baseball, put 16 Dominicans on its list of the game's top 100 prospects.
	apse.dallasnews.com /contest/2000/writing/40-100.enterprise.fourth1.html (2163 words)

	Star-Gazette.COM Entertainment featuring Time Out
		Elmira has been home to a minor league baseball team for more than a century and now also have a minor league ockey team.
		The team is called the Pioneers, a nickname that previously was used by a short-season Class A team that played in the New York-Penn League.
		Baseball: Elmira has had a professional baseball team since 1888.
	www.stargazettetimeout.com /prosports.html (515 words)

	Negro League Baseball Artifacts
		In total, the 20 baseball players that were honored on the 33¢ Legends of Baseball stamps are all members of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame and were among the 100 nominees for the All-Century Team chosen by fans and baseball experts during 1999.
		The Negro baseball leagues were formed in reaction to the ban of African Americans from Major League baseball dating back to 1887.
		Teenie played baseball briefly for the Crawford Athletic Club (a youth club financed by Gus Greenlee) in 1926 and 1927 but is best known for his work as a photographer of Negro League baseball and life in the black community.
	www.nlbpa.com /artifacts.html (1407 words)

	Washington banking on minor-league baseball - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Major-league teams control the immediate areas around their ballparks, but there was minor-league baseball all over the outlying areas of Pittsburgh in the first half of the 20th century in places such as McKeesport, Connellsville, Greensburg, Vandergrift and Butler.
		It is a league that has particular appeal to former Pirates relief pitcher Kent Tekulve, the team's director of baseball operations.
		That's the charm and allure of minor-league baseball.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/s_69821.html (2280 words)

	Minor League Baseball - Top Stories of Affiliated and Independent Minors - MLN Sports Zone - A Minor League News Magazine
		Major League Baseball has developed a programs for substance abuse and performance enhancers that is fair, tough and comprehensive.
		While major league clubs seldom are impacted by natural disasters, hurricane season can end a minor league season, or shutter a team for good.
		The game of baseball is a timeline more than a century old.
	www.minorleaguenews.com /baseball/baseball.html (1334 words)

	Team Colors
		And, special thanks also goes to Marc Okkonen, whose book "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century" provided the majority of visual estimates for historical baseball color sets for the American League and the National League.
		Major League Baseball - National League (1876 through present)
		Major League Baseball - American League (1900 through present)
	www.ssur.org /research/team_colors/team_colors.htm (1334 words)

	Inside Bay Area - Sports
		The Golden League isn't affiliated with Major League Baseball and has a single-entity ownership that operates all the teams.
		It will be the first time Reno has had a pro baseball team since the Reno BlackJacks of the defunct Western Baseball League moved from Moana Stadium to Marysville, Calif., after the 1999 season.
		The independent Golden Baseball League announced on Thursday it plans to bring professional baseball back to Reno for the first time this century.
	www.insidebayarea.com /sports/ci_3138223 (372 words)

	VINTAGE NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME
		The Bristol Barnstormers are a team created for Vintage Live: Negro League Baseball, inspired by the Major League barnstorming teams often comprised of all-stars that traditionally toured the coutnry during the off-season periods in the 1930s and 1940s.
		During the half-century of dual baseball development, more than 4,000 men displayed their talents in the Negro Leagues, a chance to play baseball that they would not otherwise have had.
		At the time, barnstorming was an effective means for baseball players to make additional money, and was a way of life for many Negro League players and teams.
	media.espn.com /MediaZone/PressKits/vintage_baseball.htm (1849 words)

	Negro League History 101 - An Introduction To The Negro Leagues
		While the Crawfords were, undoubtedly, black baseball's premier team during the mid-1930s, by the end of the decade Cumberland Posey's Homestead Grays had wrested the title from the Crawfords, winning 9 consecutive Negro National League titles from the late 1930s through the mid-1940s.
		Fowler's baseball career continued through the end of the 19th Century, much of it spent on the rosters of minor league clubs in organized baseball.
		Despite the difficult econmic challenges posed to the entire nation by the Depression, the three major Negro League circuits weathered the storm and steadily built what was to become one of the largest and most successful black-owned enterprises in America.
	www.negroleaguebaseball.com /history101.html (1849 words)

	Encyclopedia: Philadelphia Athletics (American Association)
		The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California.
		The Philadelphia Athletics were a charter member of the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, baseballs first major league, from 1871 to 1875.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Philadelphia-Athletics-(American-Association) (1849 words)

	Most Valuable Network - The Last Page
		Major league baseball should take it’s head out of its 19th century roots and adapt to the 21st century game.
		Major league baseball’s recent decision to tighten up on its drug testing policy weakens the rights of a consumer in a free market economy at the expense of possibly saving their life.
		Major league baseball has decided that this elevated level of competition does not compare to the importance of the athletes health.
	lastpage.mostvaluablenetwork.com (1849 words)

	Most Valuable Network - The Last Page
		Major league baseball should take it’s head out of its 19th century roots and adapt to the 21st century game.
		Major league baseball& recent decision to tighten up on its drug testing policy weakens the rights of a consumer in a free market economy at the expense of possibly saving their life.
		Major league baseball has decided that this elevated level of competition does not compare to the importance of the athletes health.
	lastpage.mostvaluablenetwork.com (1849 words)

	Kansas City Blues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kansas City Blues baseball team of the Western League played three seasons in Kansas City from 1898-1900 before moving to Washington, D.C. and becoming the Washington Senators when the Western League became the American League and was promoted to Major League level.
		The Kansas City Blues of the American Association, a minor baseball league, played from 1902 to 1954.
		The Kansas City Blues were a football National Football League team played in 1924 and were renamed the Cowboys in 1925.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kansas_City_Blues (192 words)

	The Birth of Professional Baseball: Nineteenth Century Part Two - A DTFC Magic Omnibus Exclusive
		They were the first of many, many powerful major league dynasties to come, a phenomenon which, over the course of major league baseball history, consistently made a shambles of the concept of competitive balance.
		Spalding scheduled cricket matches against English clubs, which the Athletics and Red Stocking players played like baseball games.
		The Philadelphia team attracted enough new talent to remain competitive (29-29), and changed their name to the Pearls, to correspond with a change in their hosiery.
	www.dickiethon.com /omnibus/birth_part2.htm (192 words)

	Edinformatics Directory
		Major League Baseball History - Standings from every Major League Baseball season since 1876 and postseason championship series results.
		Historic Baseball - The history of baseball with profiles of players and teams.
		F�d�ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) - The official site of the international governing body of the sport with news, national associations, competitions, results, fixtures, development, organisation, world rankings, statistics, the International Football Association Board, history, laws of the game, futsal, publications, downloads, and contact details.
	www.edinformatics.com /sports.htm (192 words)

	Henderson, Rickey --� Encyclop�dia Britannica
		Known as an innovator, Branch Rickey devised the farm team system of training players and hired the first African American players in major league baseball.
		The whites-only barrier was broken in major league baseball by Jackie Robinson in 1947.
		American professional baseball executive who devised the farm system of training ballplayers (1919) and hired the first black players in organized baseball in the 20th century.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=2998&ref=news0404fact (192 words)

	Baseball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major League Baseball the longest game played was a 26-inning affair between the
		Baseball is fundamentally a team sport—even two or three Hall of Fame-caliber players are no guarantee of a pennant—yet it places individual players under great pressure and scrutiny.
		Nevertheless, the average major-league pitcher can throw the ball up to ninety
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baseball (192 words)

	Team Colors
		And, special thanks also goes to Marc Okkonen, whose book "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century" provided the majority of visual estimates for historical baseball color sets for the American League and the National League.
		Major League Baseball- American League (1900 through present)
		Major League Baseball- National League (1876 through present)
	www.ssur.org /research/team_colors/team_colors.htm (414 words)

	Team Colors
		And, special thanks also goes to Marc Okkonen, whose book "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century" provided the majority of visual estimates for historical baseball color sets for the American League and the National League.
		Major League Baseball - American League (1900 through present)
		Major League Baseball - National League (1876 through present)
	www.ssur.org /research/team_colors/team_colors.htm (414 words)

	Mike's Baseball Rants
		In baseball, because of the archaic and cumbersome league structure, which lasted through much of the 20th Century, and because of critics who were and continue to be resistant to change, it was treacherous going.
		Major League Baseball's attendance is greater than that of the National Football League, National Hockey League and National Basketball Association combined, and, when you add minor league attendance, baseball's total routinely exceeds 110 million fans per season.
		Instead baseball is creating welfare mothers, who have more incentive to keep costs down even to the point of compromising the quality of a team that is usually in dire need of improvement.
	mikesbballrants.blogspot.com /2003_03_16_mikesbballrants_archive.html (414 words)

	Team Colors
		And, special thanks also goes to Marc Okkonen, whose book "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century" provided the majority of visual estimates for historical baseball color sets for the American League and the National League.
		Major League Baseball - National League (1876 through present)
		Major League Baseball - American League (1900 through present)
	www.ssur.org /research/team_colors/team_colors.htm (414 words)

	Team Colors
		And, special thanks also goes to Marc Okkonen, whose book "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century" provided the majority of visual estimates for historical baseball color sets for the American League and the National League.
		Major League Baseball - National League (1876 through present)
		Major League Baseball - American League (1900 through present)
	www.ssur.org /research/team_colors/team_colors.htm (414 words)

	Team Colors
		And, special thanks also goes to Marc Okkonen, whose book "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century" provided the majority of visual estimates for historical baseball color sets for the American League and the National League.
		Major League Baseball - American League (1900 through present)
		Major League Baseball - National League (1876 through present)
	www.ssur.org /research/team_colors/team_colors.htm (414 words)

	Online NewsHour: Baseball Strike? -- August 16, 2002
		Ray Suarez reports on the failed negotiations between Major League Baseball team owners and the players' union, resulting in an August 30 strike date.
		RAY SUAREZ: If the games cease, it will be the ninth work stoppage for Major League baseball since 1972.
		RAY SUAREZ: The last collective bargaining agreement between the team owners and the players union ended in November; the last strike in 1994, led to the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in nearly a century.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/sports/july-dec02/strike_8-16.html (414 words)

	Mack, Connie -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		American professional baseball manager and team executive, the “grand old man” of the major leagues in the first half of the 20th century.
		byname of Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy American professional baseball manager and team executive, the “grand old man” of the major leagues in the first half of the 20th century.
		American professional baseball player and manager who led the New York Giants to 10 National League championships.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9049754 (698 words)

	Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century by Baseball Almanac
		The outer garments for major league baseball uniforms as with 19th century uniforms is a fascinating, colorful story in itself and deserves more exhaustive coverage in future research efforts.
		Built-in protective padding was a standard part of ninteenth century baseball pants and this ‘quilting” survived on a few of the post-1900 uniforms.
		Oddly, the Philadelphia Athletics had never in their long history displayed so much as a letter P to identify the home city, yet they were the last of the original 16 major league franchises to spell out the full nickname ATHLETICS — in their final year (1954) in the City of Brotherly Love.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /articles/uniforms.shtml (698 words)

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